Seven Ways Educators Can Use Artificial Intelligence

Innovations in artificial
intelligence development and usage are influencing sectors far beyond the tech
world, leaving few areas untouched. Even the educational field will soon be
reaping many benefits of AI applications. In this article, we will discuss
seven ways educators can use artificial intelligence.

1. Adaptive learning. This may be the most promising application area of AI in education. AI in schools could track individual students’ progress and either adjust the coursework or notify the teacher that a student is having difficulties understanding the material. AI could also be used in intelligent tutoring systems.

2. Personalized learning. The wide array of educational programs in
which the instructional approach and the pace of learning are tailored to the needs of each student is
known as personalized learning. This
includes the specific interests and learning preferences of different students.
AI can adapt to a individual student’s learning pace and can offer tasks of
increasing complexity to optimize learning which allows both faster and slower
learners to study at their own pace.

4. Spaced training. An effective educational method that makes use
of technology is in the review of information when it’s on the verge of being
forgotten. A Polish engineer developed an educational application based on
spaced training, otherwise known as intermediate interval education. His app
tracks what a student is learning and when it’s being
learned. Using AI, the app determines when the student will most likely forget new information and recommends that it be reviewed. It only takes a few reviews to
ensure that the information will be remembered
for the long term.

5. Student feedback on teachers. There’s a long history of students
evaluating teachers. However, despite the
shift from written to digital surveys, few updates have been made in the
feedback process. Student evaluation of teachers is a beneficial source of
information, so it’s important to revise that process.

Artificial intelligence provides
many interesting options for making those
needed updates. Chatbots can collect information using a dialog interface
resembling a real interviewer, with little work required from a person.
Conversations can be adapted according to
the student’s personality and the answers being
given. Chatbots can even filter out obscene comments and personal
insults, which are sometimes left in
feedback.

6. Smart campuses. One smart campus is already in operation at an Australian
university. The intelligence behind it comes from Watson, IBM’s supercomputer system.

A smart campus can answer students’
questions related to anything they need to know about campus life, such as
finding a lecture hall, registering for a class, getting assignments, finding a
parking spot or contacting a professor.

7. Exam proctoring. Distance learning
is the flagship of high-tech education
and necessarily includes distance exams. However,
it’s a challenge to administer those exams in a way that makes sure students
don’t cheat. AI-powered proctoring systems can validate the identities of
test-takers and prevent cheating throughout the entire test.

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